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Cena goes off

As RAW began, WWE Champion Edge and his girlfriend Lita had everything to
smile about. He’d successfully lured the challenger to his
championship, John Cena, out of the arena, and Lita defeated Mickie James
to become the new Women’s Champion—making them the first couple
in WWE history to possess double gold. Unfortunately for Edge, the night
would quickly turn into a nightmare as an unexpected appearance by John
Cena turned his giddiness into fear of Cena’s wrath.

The evening kicked off with Edge shedding light on the details that took
place at the Cena residence in West Newbury, Mass. earlier in the day.
WWE.com reported that an incident had occurred that was serious enough to
cause Cena to leave the arena to head back to his father’s home.
After Edge and Lita forced their way into the house and were asked to
leave, he responded by slapping Cena’s father with enough force
to knock him to the ground. Upon leaving, Edge laughed at Mr. Cena laying
there in pain on his living room floor.

The laughs continued as the Rated R Superstar helped Lita get a victory
over Women’s Champion Mickie James. He distracted the referee which
allowed Lita to smash James in the head with the Women’s Championship
belt to get the pinfall and her third championship. The two were all smiles
as their momentum for the night seemed to be building. Trying to keep the
momentum rolling in his non-title match with Carlito was another story,
though.

Prior to the match, Carlito gave Trish a kiss to match the one she gave him
last week on RAW. Each week we’ve seen their relationship grow, but
what has it grown into? In the match, both Superstars landed high-risk
moves and Carlito nearly had a pinfall, but Lita pulled Edge’s foot
onto the rope. Stratus was at ringside to level out the playing ground by
keeping Lita at bay—for the most part.

As the match continued, out of nowhere, an irate John Cena bum rushed the
ring and clobbered the WWE Champion. The fire that burned in Cena was
present in the fact that it took a half dozen security personnel to
restrain him. As Edge fled to the locker room area to safety, one has to
wonder what’s going through his head. With the rage and fury John
Cena possessed for Edge involving his family, did the Champion make a huge
mistake less than a week before SummerSlam? Can Cena bring that rage with
him to SummerSlam? Was involving the Cena family a huge mistake for Edge?

Edge learned a harsh lesson that stepping over the line and involving the
Cena family is potentially a horrible mistake. The same can also now be
said for Randy Orton. The insults that the Legend Killer has issued towards
the Hulkster and the entire Hogan family over the past few weeks brought
Hogan into a new level of intensity on RAW.

Orton was on RAW to call out Hogan, seemingly to test the strength in the
partially torn meniscus that nearly kept Hogan out of SummerSlam. There was
no sighting of Hogan earlier in the evening, which left fans questioning
whether or not the WWE Hall of Famer would show or not. When Hogan’s
music sounded, the expectation was that Hogan was on his way down to the
ring to confront Orton. But it wasn’t. It was the imposter from Orton
Knows Best. Orton mocked the fake Hogan and told the look-alike that he was
going to kill the Hogan legend at SummerSlam. Then, the real Hulk Hogan
appeared—and the power in his glare as he walked down the ramp spoke
much louder than any words ever could.

After Hogan fought through Orton’s stomps as he entered the ring, he
tossed the Legend Killer out of the ring and pummeled the imposter with
body slams, elbows and right hands. He then had a message for Orton.

“There’s one legend that the Legend Killer can’t kill,
and that’s the legend of Hulkamania, brother. So I guess we can say,
that there’s one question: Whatcha gonna do when the power of all
these millions and millions of all these Hulkamanicas runs wild on
you?”

The McMahons have used the divide and conquer strategy to essentially run
wild on DX for the past two weeks. The plan has worked impeccably well, but
on RAW, DX was finally back in full force. The McMahons told their
SummerSlam opponents that as the biggest name in the history of
sports-entertainment, they have unlimited resources and “will bring
down the wrath of Satan upon you” to ensure a victory.

Triple H and Shawn Michaels admitted that the last two weeks had been
“a little rough” and “pretty undesirable” for DX,
but Triple H told the McMahons:

“At SummerSlam, we are going to kick your ass. Bring whoever you
want…we don’t’ care. Someone from the street…we
don’t’ care. The 82nd airborne…we don’t’
care. Satan himself…we will look the devil dead in his eye, spit in
his face and tell him the exact same thing we’re about to tell
you.”

Then Triple H gave the Chairman and his son their customary two words.
After DX gave the McMahons two words, someone else had a few words for the
Chairman and his son Shane—Armando Alejandro Estrada. After Umaga
remained undefeated by decimating another opponent, Estrada approached with
the news that his man, Umaga, was just the resource they were looking for.
Does this mean that Umaga is going to be in the McMahons corner at
SummerSlam?

Someone else who will apparently do anything for a victory is Mick Foley.
Foley appeared on the TitanTron and didn’t look like he was in the
arena. He extended an invite to Ric Flair to show up on ECW on Sci Fi
– Foley’s old stomping grounds – where the Hardcore
Legend promised to be “competing in an event so extreme it has never
been done in my career.”

But Flair didn’t have to wait for ECW because Foley got into the ring
during the Nature Boy’s match with Intercontinental Champion Johnny
Nitro to unleash an ambush. The Hardcore Legend nearly crushed
Flair’s head with the steel steps before retreating to the locker
room with his two friends, Nitro and Melina. After the beating he suffered,
will Flair be in any condition to accept Foley’s invitation and show
up on ECW on Sci Fi? How will this beating effect Flair in his “I
Quit” Match with the Hardcore Legend at SummerSlam?

Jeff Hardy will be making his triumphant return to RAW next Monday night
for the first time since his release in May of 2003. How will the refocused
Hardy fare against today’s Superstars of RAW?

The Spirit Squad was in action against “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan and
Eugene in a non-title match. The numbers game was in the Squad’s
favor until the Highlanders made their way to the ring. Rory and Robbie
McAllister have only one loss in the tag team division, and it was because
the Spirit Squad used their numbers to overwhelm them in a World Tag Team
Championship Match. On RAW, the Highlanders got some payback, sneaking into
the ring when the referee was distracted to hit Mikey with the Scot Drop to
give Eugene and Duggan the victory.

Also, the 2006 $250,000 Diva Search is down to the final three. Milena
Roucka was voted out on RAW, but immediately afterwards the final three
competed against three RAW Divas in a Diva Beat the Heat Water Fight. The
RAW Divas were declared the winners via fans applause. (Read about Diva
Search Beat the Heat l Read Milena's
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